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Comedians occupy a special place in the world of entertainment. Adopting the task of making us laugh, the comedian takes on a role in much the same way that an actor does, presenting to the audience...

Rating: 5/5 Overview Let’s get this out of the way immediately: Mahout – The Great Elephant Walk (website here) is a wonderful film. There is something gently awe-inspiring about this documentary revolving...

Rating: Three characters. A rooftop. And a cake. Basic rules of screenwriting usually stipulate never to set a film in a confined space, but it works brilliantly for Oscar Nobi’s six-minute short Liars. Filmed in...

Rating: 3 Is a screenplay worth killing for? Hilarion Banks’ Three Holes, Two Brads, and a Smoking Gun drops us in the world of wannabe screenwriter, Jack ‘JFK’ Ariamehr (Zuher Khan), a young man with a dream of...

Rating: 5/5 Overview Let’s get this out of the way immediately: Mahout – The Great Elephant Walk (website here) is a wonderful film. There is something gently awe-inspiring about this documentary revolving...

Rating: 5/5 My experience of watching Boyhood at the Picturehouse Cinema in Oxford started with two notable things: an unusually excitable audience, animatedly talking amongst themselves and even, get this, to each...

Rating: 2/5 I had high hopes for what has been billed to be one of this summer’s biggest blockbusters. The trailer (below) lured me in: director Jean-Pierre Jeunet, creator of the much-loved cult classic Amélie,...

Rating: 4/5 For his 33rd film behind the camera, Clint Eastwood focuses on the seemingly unlikely world of pop music to turn in a movie version of the hit stage musical, Jersey Boys. And what a job he makes of it too....

Rating: 5/5 Overview We all know the stories. How Heath Ledger drove himself to the edge while preparing for his performance as the Joker in The Dark Knight. How he kept an in-journal to drive his sanity even further...

Rating: Three characters. A rooftop. And a cake. Basic rules of screenwriting usually stipulate never to set a film in a confined space, but it works brilliantly for Oscar Nobi’s six-minute short Liars. Filmed in...

Rating: 3.5/5 Written and directed by Aslak Danbolt, Last Base tells of two base jumpers (Peter Width Kristiansen and Kenneth Akerland Berg) as they prepare to jump from a mountain in Norway and scatter the ashes of a...

Rating: 4/5 Overview Attack of the Killer Sock from Mcphoney Pictures is not, as the title might suggest, a joke film. There’s an undercurrent of humour to the proceedings, naturally, but rather than being a...